Zas678 Posted October 23, 2010 Report Share Posted October 23, 2010 So Brandon said that so far all of the books have been written in order cronologically. He also says that since he's writing the Stormlight Archies, that isn't going to be true, that some books he publishes will be out of order. Now, let's establish the timeline of Hoid's travels- Elantris-3 months (Hrathen's letter) Final Empire- 1 year (1 year break, mistborn time) Well of Ascension-1 year 1 year break, mistbron time Hero of Ages- 1 yearish, though I actually think less this time. Warbreaker- 3 monthsish (mysterious 5 year break) Elantris 2- (from reports that it will be 10 years after Elantris 1) WoK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew the Great Posted October 23, 2010 Report Share Posted October 23, 2010 Well technically, it could be pretty much anything except for between the Mistborn books. For example, setting the start of Elantris as the year 0: Elantris: 0 Final Empire: 6,387,298,305,934,820 Well of Ascension: 6,387,298,305,934,822 Hero of Ages: 6,387,298,305,934,824 Warbreaker: 6,387,567,920,390,136 Elantris 2: 10 WoK: 6,387,567,920,390,136 (Yes this is the same year as Warbreaker.....so what?) Point being, it's really difficult to do anything useful with this until we know how long has passed between books. If we could get a straight answer out of Brandon about that, though, I can see this being interesting and fairly useful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zas678 Posted October 23, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2010 Well if they are in chronological order so far, which brandon said, than that means that FE- Warbreaker have to be inside the 10 year gap of Elantris and Elantris 2. Since he wrote WoK earlier than he planned, that could be anytime. "17th Shard: Ok. Next question. How is The Way of Kings related to the rest of the Cosmere? What point in time is it? Brandon: Oh, so far I have um Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew the Great Posted October 24, 2010 Report Share Posted October 24, 2010 They are in order so far. Brandon mentioned that he's skipped books, though. Everything that's been published is in order, but that says nothing about Elantris 2. I'm not quite sure where you're getting that FE-Warbreaker has to be inside that 10 year gap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trendkill Posted October 24, 2010 Report Share Posted October 24, 2010 They are in order so far. Brandon mentioned that he's skipped books, though. Everything that's been published is in order, but that says nothing about Elantris 2. I'm not quite sure where you're getting that FE-Warbreaker has to be inside that 10 year gap. I think that it seems likely that they would come within that 10 years, but it's not necessarily the case. For all we know, it could have been hundreds of years, or hundreds of centuries, after the events in Elantris or Elantris 2 that Warbreaker takes place. But I still think that it's likely that that they would at least be fairly close together. I've been wrong before, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew the Great Posted October 24, 2010 Report Share Posted October 24, 2010 I agree. I just wanted to make the point. However, I do think that trying to cram it all into that 10 year timeline is a bit much. Especially when we know that Hoid is functionally immortal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zas678 Posted October 25, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2010 I don't think that it will all be this close together. Look at the mistborn triologies-to-be. They won't be for a couple hundred years. I just think that this section is, based on his statement that he skipped some books chronologically that he will write in the future, because he decided to write Way of Kings now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos Posted November 4, 2010 Report Share Posted November 4, 2010 That is correct. As they are published now, they are chronological. This does not generalize for the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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